1978   -  1984

Studied Romance Languages and Philosophy in Grenoble, Hamburg and Paris

1985   -  1987

Diplomatic School of the German Foreign Service

1987   -  1990

German Embassy Accra, First Secretary, Consular and Legal Affairs

1990   -  1992

Federal Foreign Office, Political Desk officer, Central and Eastern Europe

1992   -  1995

Consulate General Saint Petersburg, Deputy Head of Mission,
Head of Economic Relations and Press

1995   -  1998

Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations in New York, Counsellor, Disarmament and Security

1998   -  2001

Federal Foreign Office, Deputy Head of Task Force Global Issues

2002

Nato Defense College, Rome

2002   -  2005

German Embassy Moscow, Head of Press and Public Relations

2005   -  2008

Federal Foreign Office, Head of Policy Planning of Foreign Cultural and Education policy

2008   -  2011

German Embassy London, Head of Culture and Education

2011   -  2014

German Embassy New Delhi, Deputy Head of Mission

2014   -  2015

Federal Foreign Office, Director Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia

2016

Special Representative of the German OSCE Chair for the Transdniestrian Conflict Settlement

2017  -  2021

German Embassy Bucharest, Ambassador 

as of July 2021

German Embassy Dublin, Ambassador